Archive Category: 'Household'

• Get Rid Of Flies: Traps & Tips: From the first warm weather, every homeowner takes up arms against this most persistent form of pest life. Since houseflies do not bite, many people merely worry about them from the point of view of annoyance. However, it’s important to remember that they are also great disease carriers. Flies breed in and feed on rotting animal [...]
• Bed Bugs: Treatment & Tips For Getting Rid Of Them: Bed bugs (bedbugs) are usually brought into the house from the outside, on clothing, baggage, second-hand furniture or in laundry done in an infested home. Social stigma is attached to the bed bug more than to any other insect. This is unfair since the most conscientious homemaker may bring them in on his or her [...]
• Get Rid Of Fleas: Tips & Info: Fleas are one of the bloodsucking species of insects. While certain fleas confine their feeding to animals, other types are equally satisfied with human blood. Of those likely to come into the house, there are the cat flea, the dog flea, the human flea and, occasionally in the South, the sticktight flea. at and dog fleas [...]
• 12 Quick Tips For The Home: Tipnut’s Mailbag: Here is the latest batch of helpful quick tips sent in by Tipnut readers: Keep bread fresh by sticking a piece of celery in the bread bag before closing. (Tracey) Use wooden pants hangers to hang rugs on the clothesline, regular clothespins don’t work because they can’t hold the weight. (Dale) Having done the flowers and foods for [...]
• Get Rid Of Wasps: Traps & Tips: If you’ve ever been stung by a wasp, you know they live up to their reputation of being aggressive and having painful stings. When you regularly spot wasps in your yard, chances are there’s a wasp’s nest on your property or nearby. These are not pests that you want hanging about, especially if you have [...]
• How To Get Rid Of Fruit Flies: Fruit flies are tiny, pesky flies that are brown and appear to have no fear of people (often it seems they’re trying to fly up your nose and in your mouth) but they’re mostly just clumsy fliers. The good news is that getting rid of and killing fruit flies is not difficult, you just need [...]
• Homemade Ant Killers: Recipes & Tips: When trying to get rid of ants, it’s helpful to first have a basic understanding how ants live and thrive: Ants live in colonies and one class of ant within the colony is the worker/gatherer/forager. Worker ants make up approximately 10% of the colony and it’s their job to go out, find and collect food then [...]
• Garage Sale Tips For Success – How To Guide: I’ve managed several garage sales (or yard sales) over the past 10 to 15 years, both for our own household goods as well as for family and friends. I love operating them, but they are a lot of work and if you don’t play your cards right–they can be a complete waste of time. Here is [...]
• General Household Hints: Timeless Wisdom Collection: These tips come from an old booklet published sometime in the 1930’s and provide general advice and tips for running the home. he Timeless Wisdom collection is a regular feature on Tipnut where we take a look back at the methods used and advice given to tackle regular household tasks. Many are still useful for today’s [...]
• 25 Vintage Household Tips: Timeless Wisdom: hese household tips are a collection I’ve gathered from a variety of vintage books and magazines from the 1940’s and 1950’s. The Timeless Wisdom collection is a regular feature on Tipnut and I like to include tips that are still useful to know (for today’s home) but I also like to include some that give a [...]
• 28 Household Tips – Timeless Wisdom Collection: Tipnut’s collection of timeless wisdom is back! These are household tips I have collected from vintage magazines and articles dating back to the 1940’s and 1950’s, it’s an occasional feature I do here on Tipnut. Each of the tips are simple pieces of info shared between women back in the day. This is a nice way [...]
• Quick Household Tips & Resources: Here’s a mix of tips, resources and projects from Tipnut, other bloggers and from Tipnut readers… You can clean a curling iron by mixing 1/4 cup warm water and 1 TBS liquid fabric softener. Wash with a clean cloth, the hairspray and gunk should wipe right off. Use a q-tip for hard to get at spots. You [...]
• 15 Helpful Household Lemon Aids: Mothball odors can be removed from drawers by rinsing with a strong lemon solution. Remove rings inside the toilet bowl by applying a paste of borax and lemon juice to the stain (first flush toilet to make the surface wet). Allow to set for 2 hours then scrub. A cloth dipped in lemon juice will clean discolorations [...]
• 25 Household Tips – Timeless Wisdom Collection: These are household tips I have collected from vintage magazines and articles from the 1940s and 1950s, some are old stand-bys but there are a bunch of interesting & new (to me) tips too. Enjoy! A button sewn to the corner of the dish cloth comes in handy to scrape sticky particles from the dishes. Attach two [...]
• Smart Tip: Use Cupcake Liners As Popsicle Drip Catchers: Today’s feature is a smart tip from Parent Hacks with Cupcake Baking Cups As Popsicle Drip-Catcher: What works for us? A cupcake paper liner! Just cut a small hole in the bottom of the paper and insert the Popsicle stick. Viola! I wonder if it’s just the kiddos that need this when they’re eating popsicles, some adults [...]
• 17 Household Quick Tips: Freshen Up Wicker Baskets: Have a bunch of wicker baskets that are old and tired looking? Lightly wash them then dry thoroughly. Once dried, give them a fresh new look with a coat or two of spray paint. Perfect use for that little bit of paint left in a can. You can also clip off [...]
• How to Fold Anything: Today’s feature is from RealSimple with How to Fold Anything, you’ll find information on how to fold all sorts of clothing & household items. I’ve also included a neat video at the bottom explaining how to fold a t-shirt in 2 seconds. Here’s a list of what’s available from RealSimple (found via Unclutterer.com): How to Fold [...]
• Wallpaper Cleaning & Repair Tips: For grease spots apply a paste of cornstarch and water to the stain and allow to dry. Brush or vacuum off the cornstarch after a day, the grease should be gone. If you have a little nic or tear in the wallpaper, you can conceal it by coloring in the damaged area. This won’t work for [...]
• 32 Household Tips – A Collection Of Timeless Wisdom: Here’s a collection of household tips found in vintage magazines and articles from the 1950s and 1960s. This is the third part of the vintage tip series that started with 45 Cooking & Baking Tips and continued with 35 Kitchen Tips. This will be the last batch for awhile, I hope you enjoyed them . 32 [...]
• Household Science: Homemade Tips: Today’s feature is from Gomestic with a compiled tip list–Household Science: Homemade Tips. You’ll find references to tip lists for: Ten Surprising Uses For Aspirin 12 Things To Do With Coca-Cola Fifteen Household Uses for Table Salt 18 Simple and Practical Applications for Olive Oil Not Including Salad 10 Remarkable Home Made Cleaning Supplies (see also Homekeeping – A Natural Shine [...]
• 27 Ways To Use Citrus Fruit Around The House: Today’s feature is from Re-Nest with 27 Household Uses For Citrus Fruit: A staple in most homes, citrus fruit, including oranges, lemons and limes, makes a beautiful, fragrant display that can piled in a bowl. We also like to use them in a flower arrangement. Peeking out from the bottom of a clear glass container, they [...]
• Tipnut Mailbag: Help! Fine China Cracks When Pouring Tea: Sharon emailed me with this question and I have a couple tips for this problem, but if you know of any more–please share them! And PS: Do you put milk in first before pouring tea or do you do so last? I had no idea there was such a debate about it! Help Prevent Fine China From [...]
• 10 Reasons to Pack Duct Tape When You Travel: Today’s feature tip is from Delicious Baby with 10 Reasons to Pack Duct Tape When You Travel: We’re minimalists when it comes to specialized travel gear, but the one thing we never leave home without is a small roll of duct tape. Here are some terrific uses you’ve probably never considered… Visit the site to review all [...]
• Tips For Clogged Drains & Homemade Drain Cleaner Recipe: Here’s a tip sheet listing a few methods to clearing out clogged drains in the kitchen sink (plugged bathtub drains can benefit from these too). At the bottom you’ll find a suggestion for monthly drain maintenance and a homemade drain cleaner recipe to keep your drains as trouble free as possible. How To Unclog A Drain Flushing: Remove [...]
• Bugs-Be-Gone Bags: Materials Needed Rosemary Lavender Buds Thyme Lemongrass Peppermint Tansy Cedar Chips Cheesecloth, Muslin drawstring bags or fabric envelopes (free pattern download below) Directions Fill small drawstring bags to hold between 1/4 cup and 1/2 cup of the herb mixture. Place bags in your pantry, closets, drawers, chests, under beds, hang in kitchen windows. You could also place the herbs in open, decorative bowls and place them [...]